These massive walls of water may be far more common than we once believed. For centuries, scientists thought rogue waves were either impossible or so rare they might happen once every 10,000 years. But then they kept happening, forcing researchers to rethink how waves form. Hosted by Athena Brensberger @astroathens 💫 📰 Stay up to date on the latest science discoveries, full episodes, articles, videos, and more by signing up for NOVA's newsletter here: https://to.pbs.org/4brCC7Y ▶️ Stream NOVA documentaries & more with PBS Documentaries on Prime Video: https://amzn.to/4hXBlsu 💙 Help us bring the universe closer to home. Your donation ensures that NOVA’s deep-space discoveries and quantum physics explorations remain free and inspiring for the next generation of scientists. Support fact-based storytelling today. https://bit.ly/48UnsrD 🌟 Follow on social for more NOVA content Twitter: https://twitter.com/novapbs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/novapbs TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@novapbs
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I’m sure AI can find the algorithm to predict rogue waves.
Intrigued by the possibility of the presence of a ship or similar structure interfering with surrounding waves to ultimately increase the likelihood of a rogue wave forming and traveling right for it
If I had a job on a ship and some jackass says that its unsinkable, im quitting immediately!
Why do you never hear of cruise ships encountering a rogue wave?
Rogue waves are definitely real. I was in the US Navy serving on an ammunition ship, our ship and a stores ship left Subic Bay in late 1976 when forecasters saw two typhoons heading towards the port. We were about 200-300 mi out to sea late at night, my division were responsible for keeping watch using our fire control (weapons system) radar with a concentrated beam and two people forward on watch during the storm. I was on 4 hour shift manning the radar screen inside sweeping for contacts while two of my crew, one at the bullnose (front of ship) and the other on the 01 deck (one level up from main deck) stood watch. The ship was about 500' long and 35-40' up from the water line at the main deck. Just as I heard an emergency call from the nearby stores ship, I felt a strange shudder of the ship I had never felt before, and the timing of the periodic roll from 30-40' waves to something different, a giant shuddering and creaking I never heard before. Then a call came over the sound powered phones, two man overboard calls, green water hit the bridge at the 05 level. My two crew members, I grabbed rope, got one of my guys to watch the scope and ran forward to the bullnose. The gent there, a very small and wiry guy, when I called his name he answered, but from behind me. He was very luckily tangled in the ship's lines, large 3' diameter ropes which are normally curled up forward by the winches. Then another of my crew told me our guy on the 01 level was there too, his weight bending the steel guardrails as he hung on for his life, he had also lashed himself to the rail, but he had been washed up a winch area on the port side. Both bruised and battered, but OK, no one overboard. The stores ship wasn't so lucky as some cargo broke loose from the wave and 9 guys were badly injured by moving cargo. We were lucky as the 80' plus wave came directly at us, not from the side.
Athena is hosting on PBS? Cool! Congratulations Athena!
So the merging of different waves sounds like the simple answer . .
If you understand physics, it’s not a weird thing. Its several waves multiplying themselves
I've watched how rip tides and other local conditions can influence the standard waves coming into shore. Sometimes they magnify and combine at the right time to make much larger breaking waves.
Back in 2014 my family and I were on the Crystal Serenity Cruise ship sailing from Southampton, England to Rome, Italy. We had just left Gibraltar and were preparing for dinner when they came over the ships intercom that the main dinning room was closed due to a rogue wave hitting the back portion of the ship and shattered a few windows in the dining room. This dining room was on the 5th deck. Fortunately, nobody was hurt as the dining room had not yet opened. No other damage was reported. The windows were repaired the next day while we docked in Monte Carlo. One of the servers told us that it happens every once in a while. Scary stuff. I rented a couple of DVDs to put my wife’s mind at rest. Titanic(it was April 18 meh, close enough) and Poseidon(not as good as the original). My wife didn’t think I was very funny.
In the 80s two of us families were picnicking on west coast of Vancouver Island on the beach. A huge wave engulfed us all sweeping a hundred feet behind us up the sloping beachfront. Toddlers and coolers, beach chairs floating in every direction. I was a non believer in rogue waves until that day and am still to this day awestruck when I think about it.
Unfortunately the more that we learn , the less that we know .
A very well done presentation on rogue waves.
So what are ships to do when in the middle of the ocean and they receive a rogue wave warning? Try to scare it away w the fog horn? Throw all the cargo overboard r to make the ship lighter?
The sinking of the Bayesian also proves that non lineal atmospheric phenomena can endangered ships.
Is a rogue wave not just the result of constructive interference? Similar to the concept that enables active noise cancellation; destructive interference.
The underlying problem is the warmth in the worldwide tidal lines.
The east coast of South Africa is believed to facilitate the development of rogue waves. At least one cargo ship vanished without trace. I believe it's related to the strong Agulhas Current (4+ knots) moving south-west meeting strong gales blowing east-north-east
Foot?? This should be a science video!
What's so mysterious about constructive interference?